Reid Rosefelt

I got this yesterday. This is my first Creator Series, and I was surprised to see that you can get up to 9 drums/percussion instruments on one note! And some of these are pretty poweful drums! I'm sure it is well explained in the demos, but it didn't sink into my head, as when I think of a kit, my brain is programmed to think of it as different instruments on each note. With this you can get a huge kit on one note. And when you start playing these patterns... let's just say full versions of the MIDI files are aimed mainly at the very LOUD end of the spectrum. The demos make this clear. If you make epic music, this will rock you. And I could see how somebody could do a cue for an action movie just using one of the presets. Certainly you wouldn't need much more. At the same time, each production kit has versions that are only high or only low. So you can get some nice variations there. I can see myself using those the most. There are some really great things in there. But what really is great about it is the high quality of the sampling and MIDI patterns. They add up to drum beats that sound as real as they are dynamic. With all the great drums recorded I can make more modest kits for myself that will work very well for my needs. I'm happy with my purchase.

Simeon, Somebody said in VIC that it was very demanding on CPU. Do let us know what your experience is. ?

I've got most of what I want by ISA. Taiko and Drumatic Creator are not for me.

We all have to try and do our part while the One True King is away.

I hadn't thought about that. I guess their other libraries are two-parters. Also, this is the first time I know of they brought in the Euclidean sequencing from Falcon. You don't find that in too many places. I hope they continue with this and make an instrument that's not all muted sounds. It's quite an engine.

This reminds me of two of my favorite libraries: Sonuscore's Origins Muted Guitar and Harmonics, and In Session Audio's Fluid Harmonics. All the Origins series would work well with this, as well as most of the Sonuscore pattern libraries, like Mallet Flux and Elysion. Not happy that this dropped on the same day as ISA's World Percussion. ? It's up my alley but I'll have to think about it.

UVI releases Quadra: Muted & Harmonics, a modern creative 4-part instrument and sequence designer. Draw from 150 multi-sampled muted and harmonic sound sources to create dynamic, rhythmic, and evolving sequences with a focused and intuitive workflow, powerful 64-step arpeggiator and phrase sequencer, expressive performance controls, a deep factory library, and more. Quadra: Muted & Harmonics is available immediately at an introductory price of $99 / 99€ through March 31st, 2021 (regularly $149 / 149€). https://www.uvi.net/quadra-muted-and-harmonics Quadra: Muted & Harmonics is capable of a wide range of applications from classical stringed arpeggios to harmonizing guitars, grooving bass and synth lines to dark brooding cinematic soundbeds, anywhere in-between, and far beyond. Loaded with a huge selection of acoustic and electric guitars and basses from Fender, PRS, Gibson, Chapman and others, pianos, electric keyboards, FM, analog and modeling synths, classical and world stringed instruments and more, users are free to explore and create complex layered voices, adaptive progressions, and dazzling sequences with a focused and inspiring toolset. Designed to be immediately creative, Quadra delivers 4 completely customizable instrument layers with mappable keyzones, XY and dynamics morphing, envelopes, multimode filters, audio effects including frequency shifter, waveshaper, chorus, phaser, EQ, drive, tremolo, and vibrato, an advanced 64-step arpeggiator and phrase sequencer with MIDI effects including euclidean emphasis, MIDI delay, pitch drift, random, and scale quantization, sound and arpeggiator presets, randomization and more. Quadra comes loaded with an impressive collection of wildly diverse and inspired factory patches. Hundreds of unique creative visions are ready to be explored, crafted by a team of in-house veterans and industry stalwarts like Simon Stockhausen. Presets in Quadra are fully editable, functioning as fantastic starting points for your own creative journeys, or as ready-to-go mojo for your productions. Quadra: Muted & Harmonics offers native 64-bit standalone operation by way of Falcon or the free UVI Workstation, providing comprehensive support for all modern DAWs and simultaneous authorization on up to 3 computers or iLok keys.

I posted the prices above. I turned out to be pretty close with the prices. They are just $10 more than my lowest predictions. A good deal for sure and I will go for the one with the expansions. If you are interested in the expansions, then now is the time to jump as they go up $90.

Sora has many phrases in many different keys. There's nothing in the library to change the key, but I found what I needed. I suppose you could change the tuning within Kontakt, but only a bit. That would be a good question to ask Bela D.

Thanks for clearing that up, Matthew. I really didn't look at that carefully. That makes a lot more sense! In terms of expansions: When I bought Riff Generation: Outside In for the intro price of $99.99 there was only one product, but after that there were three really nice expansions that came later for free. Really good stuff that took it to a whole new level. I didn't buy the Taiko library, but I believe that the people who did get all 3 expansions for free. So if you buy Riff Generation: Outside In today it is $169.96 with all the expansions - he doesn't sell it without. There are sales now and then. And the Taiko now lists for $139.99 for the core version and $159.97 (why .97?) with the expansion packs. So.... I'm going to guess that the core on the World Percussion may be as low as $99.99 and the version with expansions might be $119.96 or $129.97. Think of what I'll do saving those extra two or three cents! Binge-buying I'm sure. If that is the price I'll go for the one with the expansions. I truly don't need any more world percussion. I have superb Djembes, Cajons, Tupans, Frame Drums, up the wazoo. I even have some excellent trash can lids. ? My GAS for this is 100% Kyle Z and the perfectionism and creativity he puts into his engines and libraries. He--and all his collaborators like EvilDragon-- is in a class by himself. I think this will be a lot of fun to use and inspiring, even though the presets are a bit more epic and film soundtracky than the kind of world percussion I tend to do, which is quieter. I have a feeling i will be using the engine more than the presets. But I'm looking forward to this if the prices are on level with the typical ISA intro prices, and there's no reason to think they won't be.

I've been waiting for this. It's coming out this week with special intro prices TBD. Nobody makes percussion libraries like ISA's Kyle Z. His guitar loop libraries are also great. https://insessionaudio.com/products/world-percussion-creator/ Two versions: CORE - with ten kits and 20 MIDI song suites $109.99 ($139.99 after intro offer) EXPANSION - 30 kits and 60 MIDI files. $129.97 ($219.97 after intro) With that price jump, it seems like the time to buy the expansions is now. Intro prices end on April 25. There is also a bundle deal for this and the two other ISA percussion libraries--Taiko Crator and Drumatic Creator for $379.91. This also makes you eligible for one more library, because of the standard ISA 4 for 3 deal.

Dodgy in Brooklyn. Nothing.

I studied EZBass pretty carefully for a video I did, and I wasn't sure how much I'd use it. But as time goes by... I love it. It's really fun to take their patterns and tinker with them. And, because there are some things hidden in the MIDI, I do think it works best if you use the basses that come with it. I never bought an EZKeys expansion, but I think I will be buying a lot of these. And all their MIDI. I'm still waiting for them to have six EZBass MIDI packs, so maybe there will be a deal. They haven't discounted any of the EZBass expansions yet.

I think that Vegas Pro may work fine for a lot of people, but my videos combine a lot of codecs, and there is a ton of layering and compositing and processing, and they can get very long. Perhaps something I'm doing just doesn't work with Vegas. It was insane how often it crashed for me. Premiere handles all that with ease. But working with Premiere is like learning a whole new language. My fingers fly over Vegas--I know how to do everything I want with great speed and ease. It's going to take me a long time to get to that level with Premiere. But I was able to do this video and the next one will be easier. I'm just going to keep watching videos and learning. There are a few things that Vegas does easily that Premiere doesn't do, and there are things that Premiere does fine but I prefer the way Vegas does them. But overall; I think Premiere is a LOT better. It does so much more, things I didn't know an editor could do. The fact that it is the standard really helps--plugins work better. The synergy with Photoshop is really great. And the fact that it is so robust for the kind of work I do makes the decision to change a no-brainer. Using my Stream Deck is very important. I like keyboard shortcuts. I really have it set up nice for Vegas and Cubase, but I am slowly putting together which buttons I use the most. I also have a ShuttleXpress, which is helpful.

The 26 GB of free sound effects from Sonniss has been posted a lot here, but I didn't know until I made my new video that there is another 25 GB freebie at WeSoundEffect https://wesoundeffects.com/we-sound-effects-bundle-2020/ I've downloaded it but I haven't had a chance to really look through them yet. But We Sound Effect is one of the biggest professional Sound Effects marketplaces. I'm sure there are a lot of great sounds in there.

The best site by a mile is to use findsound.org with the filter on for Creative Commons 0. You can apply the filter yourself, or use this direct link that takes you to the site with the CC0 filter applied: https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&q=&f= license:"Creative+Commons+0" This gives you access to over 243,000 sound effects, free and clear. I think you can do anything at all you want with them, but certainly commercial use and no attribution is required. This is so much more than the paltry amount available at other sites, even paid ones. Plus, you can filter further by types of files, bit-depth, etc. It also has a word cloud, which is helpful.

This is my first video edited with Adobe Premiere instead of Vegas. It was a nightmare to learn and it will take me a long time to catch up to my workflow with Vegas, but it never crashed once.

I'm hoping they will see the light and have ten for $10 each. I am okay if some of the $10 offers are up to $14.95. I'm not sure if I'm ready to take the leap for $29.99 being my $10 yet. But give me time.

This is one of the coolest looking audio plugins I've seen. There's nothing offered here that's particularly unique, but they've got my attention more than something like this normally would. I may very well download the demo. Also, you can't attach guitar straps to most VSTs.

$11.99 counts as $10 for me. This is the kind of thing I'm thinking about.

Remember when they just had one deal at a time? And then they had two deals at a time? The next time I looked, they had EIGHT deals going. I could usually resist GAS with one or two deals. Sometime they were selling something I already had or didn't want, so I could sigh a sigh of relief for a week or two. That money was safely set aside to be spent on something from Plugin Boutique or somewhere else. But it's much harder for me not to spend $$$ with 8 deals going all the time. Particularly when they are around $10. Ten bucks is the price point for me to buy something I really don't need. How do you deal with so many deals from Audio Plugin Deals?

I don't think I've ever seen @chillbot before. Hard to miss that hat.

Nice link. A lot of good stuff in there.

https://www.botdogsamples.com/shop/botdog-piano/ Made by the beloved @chillbot of VI:Control fame. $29 only until March 21 after which it will be $49. So don't be late! At the core of the library is a Yamaha C3 grand piano, sampled with a human touch. But what we think you’ll like the most is the range of extended techniques, wrapped up in our multi-layered articulation engine with independent controls for each sound-source, as well as a unique “Padify” mode that can turn any sound into an organically rich texture. Such levels of tweakability and sculpting possibilities make one heck of a versatile instrument! There are 16 unique articulations that you can use independently, or layer with others, including: Piano // The ‘standard’ articulation Soft Piano // Only the softest of dynamic layers Dream Piano // Resonant sustains rich with harmonics Octaves // Real sampled octaves. None of that fake stuff… Hammer // Piano strings played with wooden dulcimer hammers Hammer Muted // Strings played with Dulcimer Hammers but muted with the palm Pencils // The piano strings struck with limited edition Botdog Samples pencils Palm Mute // Piano played normally but with strings muted by hand Harmonic // Like guitar harmonics, but… with a piano Harp-monic // A resonant harmonic tone with harp-like qualities Bloomer // Harmonics with the sustain pedal pressed. Big and bloomy Electric Kalimba // An electric kalimba, recorded via direct input Mountain Air // A pad made from the tails of our Bloomer samples Shimmerrr // A textural pad that twinkles and shimmers Another Pad // Another pad Atonal FX // A small selection of scrapes and horror-esque noises from inside the piano

That's right. Don't mess with the frog.